- 201. Re: Triumph Animated Cursor - CAUTION (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:59:53 -0500
- Make sure you have replaced the correct default cursor with it - it is meant to replace the "Waiting" hourglass cursor, not the default pointer. Kevin Rhodes Freddy the Spit Nifty spinning Laurel Lea
- /html/spitfires/1998-12/msg00474.html (8,541 bytes)
- 202. Re: after market radios (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 06:05:02 -0500
- I had a 25 watt per channel Sony amp in Freddy without any trouble - he still has a good 'ol Lucas 28 amp alternator. He even has an electric cooling fan and fuel pump. Kevin Rhodes Freddy the Spitfi
- /html/spitfires/1998-11/msg00297.html (7,170 bytes)
- 203. Re: 1:18th Die-Cast Spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:35:49 -0500
- Where did you get it??? Sounds like a near perfect match for Freddy's specification! I would love to have one to add to my collection of miniatures! I need to get some sort of case for all of these -
- /html/spitfires/1998-11/msg00519.html (8,627 bytes)
- 204. RE: J vs. D type overdrive (addendum) (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:05:55 -0500
- SNIP Anyone know of a source for a proper shift knob for these? The big three seem to only carry the other knob with reverse in the wrong position. Makes taking Freddy in for things like a tire rotat
- /html/spitfires/1998-11/msg00548.html (6,906 bytes)
- 205. RE: 2 Questions... (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:54:06 -0500
- Could be worse, mine sags slightly to the RIGHT, and I wiegh 296! (I am 6'3" - perfect size for a Spit - not) Figure that one out! And no - it is not right hand drive. I also have air shocks - they m
- /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00694.html (9,375 bytes)
- 206. loose lugbolt (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:38:58 -0500
- Hello gang! Freddy the Spit has developed a loose lugbolt on one of the front hubs - should I be concerned? I is not causing a major problem at this point, I just hold it in while I am putting the wh
- /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00757.html (6,762 bytes)
- 207. Re: Naming Your Spit (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 17:53:07 -0400
- Mine is named Freddy - he's a friendly little guy with a bit of a chip on his shoulder - definately male, as a look at his straight out the back large diameter exhaust will tell! My Peugeot is named
- /html/spitfires/1998-09/msg00137.html (7,524 bytes)
- 208. Checking thrust washers? Clutch trouble... (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 22:39:59 -0400
- When doing the push on the pulley test to check the thrust washers, how hard should it be to move things back and forth (69 1300cc motor)? My car has the slanted radiator electric fan setup, so acces
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00305.html (7,462 bytes)
- 209. Which clutch parts? (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 22:54:43 -0400
- Along with my previous posting about clutch trouble, here is my next question. What combination of clutch parts am I likely to need given that I have a 69 1300cc motor, and a 77 gearbox with overdriv
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00306.html (6,476 bytes)
- 210. Re: SU linkage (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:08:58 -0400
- This is hardly the "factory" way, but on my car. when the PO installed dual SU's he just used a bent piece of aluminum with a hole and a slot cut in it to hold the end of the throttle cable. It stick
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00637.html (7,240 bytes)
- 211. Anyone going to Brookline 7/12?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:20:31 -0400
- Anyone else going to the Triumph day in Brookline, Mass. on Sunday? I need some directions to the museum that is holding it. I'll be coming from Maine with Freddy the Spit. I'd love to put some faces
- /html/spitfires/1998-07/msg00142.html (6,647 bytes)
- 212. HP? (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:56:06 -0400
- Just out of curiosity, what would everyone figure my not-so-stock 1300 is making for HP? ~70hp? It is a 1969 high compression 1300 with dual SU's, Kent cam, header and sport exhaust. With me and my e
- /html/spitfires/1998-07/msg00146.html (6,675 bytes)
- 213. 77 Spitfire front end shake (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:36:00 -0400
- Freddy has had a front end shaking problem for quite a while. At 70 and over there is a fairly strong side to side motion. Sometimes it will go away for a moment or two and then come back. This seems
- /html/spitfires/1998-07/msg00191.html (7,435 bytes)
- 214. SU carb questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:04:45 -0400
- As I was poking around under Freddy's hood I noticed that the float bowl (I think this is what it is - the cylinder that hangs down) on one of his SU's is loose - it is free to rock back and forth a
- /html/spitfires/1998-06/msg00142.html (7,352 bytes)
- 215. Identify this wire? (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:17:56 -0400
- Well gang, I seem to have banished my turn signal demons once and for all. I finally tore the entire driver's side of the dash apart and cleaned the hazard light switch and all of the associated conn
- /html/spitfires/1998-06/msg00358.html (7,186 bytes)
- 216. Thanks to all for flasher help! (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 00:17:02 -0400
- Thanks guys! I traced my non-functioning indicators to the hazard light switch knob being too tight of all things. I found that if I unscrewed the knob a turn or so, everything works fine. I don't kn
- /html/spitfires/1998-05/msg00014.html (6,946 bytes)
- 217. Thanks to all for flasher help! (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 00:18:49 -0400
- Thanks guys! I traced my non-functioning indicators to the hazard light switch knob being too tight of all things. I found that if I unscrewed the knob a turn or so, everything works fine. I don't kn
- /html/spitfires/1998-05/msg00015.html (6,963 bytes)
- 218. Latest stupid flasher trick (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 19:55:18 -0400
- Well over the weekend I thought I had figured out my turn signal flasher problems once and for all. I cleaned as many of the connections as I could find, and by loosening the hazard light switch knob
- /html/spitfires/1998-05/msg00044.html (7,870 bytes)
- 219. Clutch trouble (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 17:46:43 -0400
- Freddy is acting up this week! First I noticed that the clutch felt "weird" - when I push in on the pedal, the last bit of travel feels springy, like I am pushing up against a bunch of foam rubber of
- /html/spitfires/1998-05/msg00391.html (7,051 bytes)
- 220. Clutch trouble (More Questions) (score: 1)
- Author: "Kevin B. Rhodes" <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 11:12:30 -0400
- Thanks to everyone who replied! The consensus seems to be either the release bearing or the fingers on the cover, with one person urging me to check the thrust washers (God I hope it's not that - wil
- /html/spitfires/1998-05/msg00398.html (7,776 bytes)
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